Weekend Suggestions To Entertain the Family

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Are you ready to celebrate the end of the school year? Many area schools are concluding for the summer, making kids primed to party. If you’re looking for something fun to do this weekend with the family in New Jersey, you must make time to check out the following local events.

The city of Montville is ready to celebrate Independence Day early this year! The town’s July 4th event will actually be held on June 22 to June 24. The fireworks show will be Saturday night and choreographed to music. A parade in honor of the event will be held on 1 pm on Saturday. Additional highlights include carnival rides, food-eating contests, and live musical acts.

The Immaculate Conception Parish in Annadale will be having their annual carnival this coming weekend. From Wednesday to Sunday, the church grounds will be transformed into a fair with carnival rides, food vendors, a pig roast, and fireworks on Saturday night. The fair will open nightly at 6 pm with the exception of Sunday when gates open at 4 pm.

The State Fair has finally arrived again at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford. From June 22 to July 9, games, live entertainment, rides, and food will be all available at the very popular event. Favorites among the lineup include racing pigs, high dive act, Batcopter rides, and Sky Rides. Advance tickets are available for purchase.

Historic Chester will be hosting their annual fair from June 20 to June 24. Tuesday and Thursday will be wristband nights while the fireworks are scheduled for Friday night with a raindate for Saturday. Carnival and fire truck rides will be running along with food vendors and a beer tent.

SOMERVILLE, NJ - Instead of pushing their way through the doors at the end of the school day this week, students at the Van Derveer School took their time and hung out in the lobby each day, patiently waiting on line to spend 25 cents for a 9-ounce cup of lemonade.

The students are supporting the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, a non-profit organization working to ...

PISCATAWAY, NJ – A 15-year-old Piscataway student is facing charges after investigators determined a social media post about a possible shooting at Piscataway High School was a credible threat, police officials said on Thursday.

Piscataway police and school resource officers immediately began their investigation once they learned of the post on March 13, said police. They said ...

NEW BRUNSWICK - Rutgers University officials have often been wary of the governor's annual budget message, wondering what type of budget cuts the university may sustain and how it would potentially impact tuition and the overall quality of education.

This budget message, delivered March 13, appears to be a sigh of relief.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, FL - The 25th Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival at the Walt Disney World Resort continues through May 28, 2018. The first festival in was a 38-day celebration, for 2018 it is 90 days of gardens and topiaries. 2018 is also the 35th anniversary of Epcot.

The Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival is showcasing millions of ...

PISCATAWAY, NJ — A township middle school student is facing charges after investigators determined that a message written on a school bathroom wall earlier this month was a potential threat of violence, said Piscataway police.

“On March 2, the Piscataway Township Police Department received a report from school officials at Theodore Schor Middle School of graffiti that was placed on ...

NEW BRUNSWICK - Rutgers University officials have often been wary of the governor's annual budget message, wondering what type of budget cuts the university may sustain and how it would potentially impact tuition and the overall quality of education.

This budget message, delivered March 13, appears to be a sigh of relief.

METUCHEN - The Middlesex County Democratic Organization today endorsed Robert Menendez for Senate, Representatives Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-6) and Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12), Freeholder Director Ronald Rios and Freeholder Shanti Narra for the Board of Chosen Freeholders. Over 300 committee people came out to participate in the convention.

In Cold Blood is, quite simply, the grand-daddy of true crime writing, dubbed by Capote, himself, as the first non-fiction novel (although Norman Mailer argued the point when he published The Executioner's Song in 1979.) The conditions under which I read In Cold Blood for the first time were pretty weird, which was another ...

This week I am taking a departure from book reviewing to share an important program that has been introduced to New Jersey this week by Mr. Ian Hockley, founder of the Dylan's Wings of Change Foundation. On December 14, 2012, Hockley's five year old son, an autistic child named Dylan, was gunned down in his classroom in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Dylan, a shy and adorable ...

EARTH CENTER, NORTH BRUNSWICK, NJ - Consider this: just about everything we eat, wear and use comes from agriculture. That is why America’s farmers and their crops are celebrated each year on National Ag Day, which falls this year on March 20.

To honor this day, the Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County has planned a new seminar entitled The State of ...